Happy Holidays

Posted by Victoria Strauss for Writer Beware The Writer Beware blog will be on holiday hiatus for the next two weeks. I will still be answ...

Evaluating Publishing Contracts: Six Ways You May Be Sabotaging Yourself

Posted by Victoria Strauss for Writer Beware As I've followed the discussion (for instance, here , here , and here ) over the past coup...

Rights Grab: Transferring Copyright

Posted by Victoria Strauss for Writer Beware EDITED 12/17/14 TO ADD: The Toast has announced that it will change its contract terms. See t...

Alert: Questionable Terms of Use in HBO's Game of Thrones Compendium

Posted by Victoria Strauss for Writer Beware UPDATE 12/18/14: HBO has changed its terms of use to partially address the concerns below. Se...

Don't Do This: Wrong Ways to Try and Escape Your Deadbeat Publisher

Posted by Victoria Strauss for Writer Beware The other day, I received this email: Dear Writer Beware, A couple of years ago, I published ...

MeGustaEscribir: Author Solutions Inc. Expands Into Spain

Posted by Victoria Strauss for Writer Beware Today I'm highlighting a post by author and self-publishing expert David Gaughran . Like W...

Scam Warnings For Freelancers

Posted by Victoria Strauss for Writer Beware Identity Theft This week, freelance writer Heather Boerner (who has published with such well...

Alert: Cookbook Marketing Agency

Posted by Victoria Strauss for Writer Beware Are you thinking of creating your own cookbook--or have you already created one? Good news: an...

Solicitation Alert: LitFire Publishing

Posted by Victoria Strauss for Writer Beware EDITED 11/11/14 TO ADD: Either as a result of this post or of the accompanying discussion at A...

Kindle Scout: The Pros and Cons of Amazon's New Crowdsourced Publishing Program

Posted by Victoria Strauss for Writer Beware Yesterday, Amazon's brand-new crowdsourced publishing program, Kindle Scout , opened for v...

How Not to Change Your Business Model: The Latest on Permuted Press

Posted by Victoria Strauss for Writer Beware This is a very long post. If you're already familiar with the issues involved, scroll down...

How Not to Register Copyright

Posted by Victoria Strauss for Writer Beware A few years ago, I wrote a post on the difference between copyright (literally, the right to ...

How to Request Rights Reversion From Your Publisher

Posted by Victoria Strauss for Writer Beware Partly in connection with the controversy surrounding troubled publisher Ellora's Cave , I...